OT- More awesome World Cup excuses by North Korea

This is too funny not to share. A fellow MGoBlogger previously posted the excuse that the North Koreans didn't advance because several players were struck by lightning, but now that FIVE of the North Korean women have tested positive for steriods at the World Cup, we have a pure gold excuse...

FIFA has already met with a North Korean delegation and heard arguments that the steroids were accidentally taken with traditional Chinese medicines based on musk deer glands to treat players who had been struck by lightning on June 8 during a training camp in North Korea.

The gland in question comes from musk deer living in a large swathe of Asia from Siberia to North Korea. The hairy 4-centimeter gland is usually cut open to extract a liquid that is used for medical purposes.

Not really. I'm sure some pretty gruesome things happen to them if they don't perform well. There's a detailed history of this sort of stuff going on with the Iraqi national team (not just in soccer). In that context, it is easy to feel for them, at least in my book.

The deer was named Glorious Leader Kim Il-Sung, for when it was born on a mountaintop, a double rainbow appeared over the earth and a swallow alit on a nearby tree branch and sang hymns of self-reliance, just as was the case for our Glorious Leader. That is why it heals imperialist lightning strikes.